Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.K.R.3.3
The Standard
Compare and contrast characters' experiences in stories.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify what happens to two characters and how each character responds. They tell one way the experiences are alike and one way they are different.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can name one shared experience and one different experience. The student points to words or pictures that support each idea.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may compare appearance, such as clothing or size, instead of events and responses. They may retell each character’s story without naming a similarity or difference.
How to Assess It
- After a familiar read-aloud, ask: “Draw one thing both characters experienced. Tell one thing that happened differently for them.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards showing story events, then have students sort them by character and place shared events in the middle.
After reading The Three Little Pigs, ask: “How were the first and third pigs’ experiences with the wolf alike and different?”
Play Same or Different: read two character event cards, and students hold up a matching or different card and explain their choice.
Have partners compare their experiences building the same block tower, then connect their similarities and differences to two story characters.
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- ELA.7.R.3.3
Compare and contrast how authors with differing perspectives address the same or related topics or themes.
- ELA.2.R.3.3
Compare and contrast important details presented by two texts on the same topic or theme.
- ELA.3.R.3.3
Compare and contrast how two authors present information on the same topic or theme.
- ELA.1.R.3.3
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